Exit the King

18 - 21 July 2007

by Eugene Ionescu

“Why was I born if it wasn’t forever?”

After a ludicrous reign spanning two hundred and seventy-three years and three months, King Berenger is suddenly now left with one hour and seven minutes to live. Surrounded by his dearest friends and closest enemies, the King must quench his regal pomposity and face up to his own mortality.

Played to a landscape of an excitable and childish playground, this production grabs this Ionesco classic by the pig-tails and puts the ‘abs’ in absurd.

The Tabard is an intimate, 96 seat theatre close to Turnham Green tube station in Chiswick, London. It opened in 1985 above the Tabard Pub, a popular and historic local landmark. It quickly built a strong reputation for new writing. Over the years the Tabard Theatre has played a key role in the development of London Theatre, highly acclaimed for its professional work and extremely popular within the community of West London.